The best thing about watching New Year’s Eve live from NYC is that it’s over at 9PM in California and I can go to bed.

So glad her husband got that job so at least one cartoonist in New York can have health insurance.

It’s a cruel curse of ADD that at the end of the day, when I have time to work on projects, the meds have totally worn off and I just sit in frustrating task paralysis.

Recovering from an emergency appendectomy a week ago, followed by lung complications which put me back in ER. I left the house for the first time today, to go to the craft/art supply store. All my climbing and travel plans cancelled this month, I’ll go stir crazy otherwise.

Technically all gardening books are dirty books

Reading a short book is running fast with the wind, reading a long book is like floating a river, slow currents and wild rapids I hope this helps.

Musicians: we have enough Christmas albums. Please release more Halloween/ spooky season albums.

Just continuously refreshing my feed waiting for the first Spooky Lake Month episode to drop

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

The shift from “you’ve inherited millions” to “there’s a job available” as the most common scam speaks volumes about our society.

ADHD fam: does anyone have tips for doing a budget? It’s the type of thing that is almost physically painful to try to focus on; lots of cross referencing, spreadsheets, dependencies..I feel my brain side questing before I even start.

Years ago, walking around an LA on a sweltering October day, there was a guy in full Halloween costume, head and all, dancing slowly & shaking a sign for Spirit. “You doing ok?” I asked. With deep resignation and sadness he said: “It’s a job [dance dance] ..They pay me”. I think about him a lot.

One of the worst things about being (really) bad with names, is there are people I would love to talk to again but I can’t figure out how to find them. I can vividly recall times spent together and even conversations, but I can’t find them in my phone :(

Here’s a wild one. Indigenous to central and Northern Africa, tsamma and kordofan melons are what modern watermelons are derived from.

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

Jet lag first day: can trick myself into thinking it’s kind of fun. Got up At 5, waffles at the diner at 6, gym at 7. Jet lag day 2: up at 3 am. I cannot muster the delusions to pretend this is anything but a hellscape.

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

Tinder profile vs. reality #fungifriends #fungi #dating #photography #morchella #gyromitra

I have felt no deeper resigned fatalism than in a dressing room, stuck in a dress, half off and with arms over my head

Feel the emotional whiplash of the 90 day tariff pause? If anyone was curious what it was like to be raised by a narcissistic parent, the current administration is a pretty good analogy.

Boosting the signal again. Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...

I’m making these little tomato patches out of scrap wool. I am deciding between arranging them like on a vine, or randomly. Originally I thought vine, but I’m not sure I like how the stem will just have to stop somewhere.

The Texas measles outbreak has hit 400 cases Of the 400 cases, 398 were people who were unvaccinated or had an unknown vaccination status

Meme checks out

Really conflicted between the desires of buying more plants or leaving the country

Sure, I’d love to come to your party. I just need to know where, when, who’s coming, how late I’m expected to stay, what temperature it’s going to be, whether I should bring anything, and if anyone will be upset with me if I decide at the last minute to stay home in my pajamas

How does one become a certified badass? Do you self report, or is it independent governing body?

I just want to join the revolution and stomp out fascism and end tyranny And have someone be kind and tell me I’m pretty and that they love me. The two moods

If we did AART as a musical this would be Miranda’s charm song.

I’m beginning to think the reason our parents just left the TV on all the time is that they all had undiagnosed ADHD and ‘body doubling’ wasn’t a named thing yet

America 2025: Nice social contract you have there Shame if something..WERE TO HAPPEN TO IT

Trump has dismissed the director of the Office of Government Ethics. David Huitema, the former director, played a key role in vetting Trump administration appointees for conflicts of interest.

Mood

🎶≋D≋e≋f≋i≋a≋n≋t≋ ≋J≋a≋z≋z≋🎶 #Severance

Okay February, you seem nice, but I just got out of a VERY toxic relationship with January so I’m not looking for anything too serious right now. So we can hang, we can have some fun, but the second you make me cry I am OUT

#hourlycomicday part 3, in which I run out of steam.

#hourlycomicday , part 2. I was nervous to include the Botox- but it really has helped my ‘resting concerned face’. People thought I didn’t like them when we first met, or was upset, or angry. I could see it in people’s faces reflected at me- a wariness of my expression. #hourlycomicday2025

@airplanefaxwithmax.bsky.social do you read @kyracloudy.bsky.social ‘s in depth crash analysis posts?

Trump is offering all federal workers a buyout with seven months’ pay to shrink the government—but that’s not the whole story. Reports reveal some employees are being pressured to resign or face termination under the guise of organizational restructuring. In short: take the buyout or be fired.

Musk and his team have hostilely taken over OPM. Tonight’s email to fed employees mirrors the “Fork in the Road” message sent to Twitter (now X) staff after Musk’s 2022 takeover. He is working with the Trump administration to build profiles on federal workers based on loyalty (political standing).

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

I may not be an Olympian, but I am a cartoonist, and I wield my pen well.

If anything, I am the ‘Maker’ generation. For a brief, beautiful time in the early 2010’s, everyone was building with whatever they could get their hands on, at grubby hacker spaces and posting free instructions online. ( a 🧵musing on ‘maker movement’)

I thought about changing my pic to a cheerier self portrait; but it wouldn’t be realistic and besides, this one is hydrating, and we all gotta hydrate

Welp, there you have it. The "sin of empathy."

Reposting for the evening crowd! A very earnest invitation to join me next Saturday for Hourly Comic Day! And read my old ones here: www.lucyknisley.com/hourly-comic...

Making a backup plan